Old Globe Theatre artistic chief Barry Edelstein has been living Shakespeare for the better part of his professional life.

Now the renowned director will be sharing some of what he has learned about the Bard and his plays in "Thinking Shakespeare Live!," a 90-minute presentation meant to help illuminate and demystify Shakespeare's language for actors, artists and general audiences alike.

The event takes place at the Balboa Park theater at 11 a.m. June 15 (Saturday). Tickets are $10 for subscribers and full-time students, $15 for general audiences.

Edelstein has done similar events at the Public Theater, where he was director of that New York institution's Shakespeare Initiative before coming to the Globe, and at Classic Stage Co., where he was previously artistic director, as well as at various college campuses.

His talks draw to some extent from Edelstein's 2007 book "Thinking Shakespeare: A How-To Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable with the Bard."

"You know, Shakespeare’s hard for people sometimes," Edelstein says. "And they just need a little bit of insight into the kinds of things that actors do to take the mystery away from it. That’s really what the whole thing is about.

"Suddenly it goes from being this monolithic, intimidating thing, to just being regular English words that are put together in a certain kind of order. And then people can connect with it.”

Edelstein will have some help from three actors drawn from the company of this summer's Globe Shakespeare Festival, although the trio has not been identified yet. The specific content of the session is also still a bit of a work in progress.

Edelstein says the talks often incorporate language from "The Merchant of Venice," because "it’s one of those plays that has everything in it that Shakespeare does.” That play also happens to be one of the three being produced in this year's festival (along with "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead").

The event, Edelstein adds, is not meant to suggest that audiences will need any extra help to keep up with what's happening onstage during the festival.

As he puts it: "We do good, clear, accessible, wonderfully user-friendly Shakespeare here at the Globe."

Tickets for "Thinking Shakespeare Live! are now on sale; call (619) 234-5623 or visit oldglobe.org.